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• The agit-rockers from the “Motor City” Detroit took their motto (“Drop all inhibitions!”) Literally. Hard, uninhibited and snotty, they rocked through their repertoire and are not without reason considered the forefathers of punk alongside the Stooges. The sheer energy of the quintet around guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith, later Patti Smith’s husband, still electrifies to this day. “We were punk, before punk. We were new wave, before new wave. We were metal, before metal. We were even” MC “before Hammer.” So Rob Tyner, the singer and frontman of the MC5, in 1991 (the year of his death) about his band. And if you listen to the speech at the beginning of the gig in Detroit’s Grande Ballroom by John Sinclair (manager of the MC5),
  “Brothers and sisters, I wanna here some revolution out there. Brothers and sisters, the